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I’m an IT guy. I love this stuff. Sometimes drives my wife crazy. Interesting enough she also has a B.S. in Computer Science. Although mine is from Iowa State – nice school middle of a cornfield, hers is from Central Michigan – also nice school in middle of the hand. (Not so inside joke if you’re from Michigan). You know where I work – she has the harder job –... [More]

The stock market is down, COBOL caused it. Gasoline prices are up, COBOL caused it. Businesses and governments are not responsive? COBOL caused it. See the attached link referring to the State of California? Titled: "California can't perform pay cut because of COBOL"; according to their Governor; http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?no_d2=1&sid=08/08/05/1816206 And over the last few... [More]

This seems to me to be one of the most fundamental, yet simple to understand issue that plagues IT today. A ? that is tightly coupled with this is - Is IT going to be primarily viewed as an expense or as a revenue producer? My view on this is pretty simple. To deliver more value, IT organizations need to deliver more revenue producing applications faster. More processing, less time to market. Like... [More]